Euphemia Elphinstone

Abt 1675 -

• Name	Euphemia Elphinstone
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Female
  Birth	Abt 1675
  Siblings	1 brother and 3 sisters
  1. Robert Elphinstone           b. Abt Feb 1668             d. Bef 1778  (Age ~ 109 years) > 2. Euphemia Elphinstone           b. Abt 1675 ▻ David Ramsay, of Lethandie & Mungall,  m. 30 Jun 1699   3. Isobel Elphinstone           b. Abt 1679             d. 18 Jul 1774, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain  (Age ~ 95 years)   4. Mary Elphinstone           b. Between 1680 and 1695   5. Helen Elphinstone           b. Between 1682 and 1695
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Michael Elphinstone, of Quarrell           b. Between 1641 and 1652             d. Jul 1695 (Age ~ 54 years)
  Mother	Rachel Bruce           b. Abt 1645

  
  

  Husband	David Ramsay, of Lethandie & Mungall           b. Abt 1675             d. Jul 1736 (Age ~ 61 years)
  Marriage	30 Jun 1699	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Age at Marriage	Euphemia was ~ 24 years old - David was ~ 24 years old.
  Children	1. Michael Ramsay           b. Abt Sep 1702             d. Bef 1812 (Age ~ 109 years)   2. Rachel Ramsay           b. Abt May 1707             d. Bef 1817 (Age ~ 109 years)   3. James Ramsay           b. Abt Jul 1708             d. Bef 1818 (Age ~ 109 years)   4. Margaret Ramsay           b. Abt 1710             d. 1767 (Age ~ 57 years)   5. Alexander Ramsay           b. Abt Jun 1712             d. Bef 1822 (Age ~ 109 years)   6. William Ramsay           b. Abt Jul 1715             d. Bef 1825 (Age ~ 109 years)   7. David Ramsay           b. Abt Mar 1718             d. Bef 1828 (Age ~ 109 years)   8. John Ramsay           b. Abt Oct 1719             d. Bef 1829 (Age ~ 109 years)   9. Robert Ramsay           b. Abt Feb 1721             d. Bef 1831 (Age ~ 109 years)
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2021

  
  

• Notes

  D_Burn_2 has Euphemia Elphinstone being the daughter of Michael Elphinstone (b. 1593) of Quarrel, the brother of Alexander, 5th Lord Elphinstone, but this is impossible given the timings required. So... Michael Elphinstone (first?) of Quarrell, brother of Alexander 5th Lord Elphinstone, is described in the Scot's Peerage1; unfortunately the reference only mentions Michael's son Robert. Some other sources (Ancestry, Stirnet) make Michael (father of Euphemia) the grandson of the Michael from TSP, the intervening generation being Robert Elphinstone of Quarrell. This makes sense as the Michael from TSP died 1640, and Euphemia cannot have been born much before 1652 (i.e. to avoid her being older than her husband David Ramsay). One Ancestry tree has her mother Rachel Bruce (of Stenhouse); there is a birth record on Scotland's People (and FamilySearch)for a Robert Elphinstoun born to Michael Elphinstoun and Rachell Bruce on the 6th Feb 1668 at Edinburgh, but nothing for Euphemia. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X1YV-L4L mentions that Robert Elphinstone (perhaps the same as above) had a daughter Margaret who married Sir William Bruce, 3rd of Stenhouse & Airth. There are other sundry references online to Bruces of Airth marrying into the Elphinstone family. Finally, in The Lands and Lairds of Larbert & Dunipace Parishes2 we find mention of Euphemia again, but here noted as a sister of Robert and daughter of Michael: Michael Elphinstone, third of Quarrell, was a Commissioner of Supply, 1678 and 1685. He and Robert, his eldest lawful son, had sasines "of four oxengate of land of Over Mungall, with the corn milne thereof, kill and milnelands, with ye pertinents," 16th January, 18th February, and 8th July, 1690. He married Rachel Bruce, only daughter of Sir William Bruce of Stenhouse, Bart., by Helen Douglas, his wife, and had 1) Robert, who succeeded; 2) Euphane, eldest daughter, married 30th June 1699 to David Ramsay of Lethendy, WS, who had a sasine of the lands of Over Mungall, milne and milnelands in the barony of Kerse, 26th August 1712. 3) Isobell, born about 1679, died at Edinburgh unmarried, 18th July 1774, aged ninety-five; 4) Mary, third daughter 5) Helen, fourth daughter. Michael Elphinstone of Quarrell died July 1695. Piecing all this together, it looks like the succession is: Euphemia->Michael, 3rd of Quarrell->Robert, 2nd of Quarrell->Michael, 1st of Quarrel->Alexander, 4th Lord Elphinstone Given that Euphemia was the eldest daughter, but younger than Robert, we can narrow down her birth year to between 1669 and 1678, Family Life Euphemia married David Ramsay on the 30th of June 1699 at Edinburgh: the marriage record reads: David Ramsay of Lethanie, Writer to the Signet, & Eupham Elphinston, lawful daughter to the deceast Michael Elphinston of Quarrell. Footnotes [1] Scots Peerage, James Balfour Paul, Volume 3, 1906, page 539 [2] Lands and lairds of Larbert and Dunipace parishes, John Charles Gibson, 1908

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 30 Jun 1699 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S0380] National Records of Scotland, Old Parish Registers - Marriages, (scotlandspeople.gov.uk), 30 Jun 1699, Ramsay, David; 685/1 450 63 Edinburgh. [S0186] Ancestry, Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, (ancestry.co.uk), 30 Jun 1699, David Ramsay / Euphemia Elphinston; FHL Film Number 1066689, 0103045.